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Theodor Adorno Quotes: Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.
         

Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.


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Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.
         



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